Copyright: Nine Horses, excl. to Samashi Sound IIc.
Release info:: Nine Horses is a collaboration of David Sylvian, Steve Jansen and Burnt Friedman.
Stunning group project featuring David Sylvian, Steve Jansen and Burnt Friedman
Nine Horses' 'Snow Borne Sorrow' is a collaboration between David Sylvian, his brother and frequent collaborator / drummer Steve Jansen (also formerly of Japan) and electronic composer / remixer Burnt Friedman.
Packed in a beautiful, three panel digipack and folded inlay sheet with credits and tracklist.
Executive producer: David Sylvian Engineered by Sylvian, Jansen and Friedman
Mixed by David Sylvian with Steve Jansen at Samadhisound Except track 7, mixed by David Sylvian with Steve Jansen and Burnt Friedman
Recorded at Samadhsound USA and Cologne Germany 2001-2005 Sessions: Miloco 3, Eden Studios and Shpere Studios, London. Electric and acoustic guitars played and recorded by Tim Motzer at 1k recording Studio, Philadelphia USA. Electric guitar and Bass guitar on track 3 recorded by James Fletcher at UTS Sound Stuido, University of Technology, Sydney Australia. Vibraphone on track 3 recorded by Frank Gronbek at First Floor Rec., Copenhagen Denmark. Mastered by Tony Cousins at Metropolis London.
Cover artwork: Wes Mills (outer panels 'us two sitting' 1995, 'us two sitting' 1995, 'hudson river drawing' 1995) (inner panels: duchamps 1999, three bridges 1999) Art direction: David Sylvian Design: Chris Bigg
Track 6 incorporates sample taken from 'un jour comme un autre' by Brigitte Bardot, courtesy of Mecury Records. A label of Universal Music France. (1963 Warner Chapell Music France)
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Wonderful World
It’s a wonderful world And you take and you give And the sun fills the sky In the space where you live
It’s a day full of dreams It’s a dream of a day And the joy that it brings Nearly sweeps her away
It’s a wonderful world As the buildings fall down And you quicken your step ‘til your feet leave the ground And you’re soaring above All the sorrow below And you’re falling in love With those you don’t know
And your heart feels so wide And your heart fills so strong It was never a place That you felt you belonged
It’s a wonderful world Full of wonderful things And the people fall down And abandon their dreams
(I hear him, he’s talking out loud Sometimes he whistles while walking How could he know any better? I weep for him, I weep for him now)
It’s a wonderful world It’s a real crying shame Cos she’s hurting herself In a violent way And there’s people she knows That won’t even try And they’re trapped in their lives Feeling terrified And it’s in times like these That she promised to call But the scale of our love Is diminished and small
It’s a wonderful world And she doesn’t know why She wakes up each day And continues to cry
(He’s sleeping his troubles away He’s finding it too hard to bear I’m with him every step of the way I weep for him, I weep for him now)
It’s a wonderful world And you take and you give And the sun fills the sky In the space where you live
Here come the darkest birds To burst the bubble End of a perfect day Head full of trouble
Here come the darkest birds All tar and feathers Why did none of them dream of trying To make things better?
Those are the mimicking kind They are, they are I number myself among them The furthest star
And this is the road I walked on When I shot you down All words of forgiveness useless They won’t help me now And I should’ve been there for you When you called my name I promise to tread more lightly Though what’s gone is gone It’s such a shame
Here come the darkest birds They’ve got their reasons All their pretty colours are gone Washed out of season
Those are the soaring kind They are, they are I number yourself among them The brightest star
And this is the road I walked on When I shot you down All words of forgiveness useless They won’t serve me now And I should’ve been there for you When you called my name I promise to tread more lightly Though what’s done is done It’s such a shame
Her skin was darker than ashes And she had something to say Bout being naked to the elements At the end of yet another day And the rain on her back that continued to fall From the bruise of her lips Swollen, fragile, and small
And the bills that you paid with were worth nothing at all A lost foreign currency Multi-coloured, barely reputable Like the grasses that blew in the warm summer breeze Well she offered you this to do as you pleased
And where is the poetry? Didn’t she promise us poetry?
The redwoods, the deserts, the tropical ease The swamps and the prairie dogs, the Joshua trees The long straight highways from dirt road to tar Hitching your wheels to truck, bus, or car
And the lives that you hold in the palm of your hand You toss them aside small and damn near unbreakable You drank all the water and you pissed yourself dry Then you fell to your knees and proceeded to cry
And who could feel sorry for a drunkard like this In a democracy of dunces with a parasites kiss?
And where are the stars? Didn’t she promise us stars?
Nothing will ever be as it was The price has been paid with a thousand loose shoes Pictures are pasted on shop windows and walls Like a poor mans Boltanski Lost one and all.
Sell, sell Bid your farewell Come, come Save yourself Give yourself over Pushing your consciousness Deep into every atom and cell, Sell, Bid your farewell Come, come Save yourself Give yourself over Pushing your consciousness Deep into every atom and cell, Sell, Bid your farewell Come, come Save yourself Give yourself over Pushing your consciousness Deep into every atom and cell
I’m having my day My place in the sun I’ll grow to resemble The man I’ve become
There’ll be time for reflection When I reach that plateau When the war has been won No farther to go
And I fear that it isn’t enough
I’m making a fortune I swore to enjoy These things I promised myself When I was a boy
When I was a boy And things moved too slow And universes revolved around Things I didn’t know
When I was a boy And I made mistakes I was humiliated Til I knew my place
And I fear that it isn’t enough
Ignorance hurts Injustice inflames I remember the feelings But forgotten their names
When I was a boy I saw through their lies I swore I wouldn’t become The thing I despised But events over take you While you set your sights On bigger game On greater heights
God bless amnesia And the things I’ve suppressed I can reframe the image I can discard the rest
A history of holes Where the pieces that won’t fit With the story you told yourself And your place in it
And I fear that it isn’t enough
So put on a brave face Straighten that tie And speak like you mean it Give truth to the lie
Strip the branches Unsheathe the hatchets The threads of friendship Are coming off
The teeth of lawyers Man the trenches Bands of betrothal Are coming off
But if we’re good If we’re kind But if we’re good Generous and kind We’ll inhabit their sunsets Their goddesses and queens We’ll try to do the right thing
(Oh save them) Oh save them (Oh save them) (Oh save them) Oh save them (Oh save them)
Let the children come to me
It’s a harrowing world Of adults and girls Lashing out at the hurt That surrounds them
With the knives drawn apart They shatter the heart Of anyone that dares come between them
Let the children come to me
Once a playground of swings Then the malice set in And reduced all the colours to winter
So we made it our own This snow borne sorrow And this love that stutters and splinters
Let the children come to me
Her apostles have gone They left one by one With no forwarding address to trace them
It’s a secular world Of adults and girls And we ask because nothing is certain
Let the children come to me
When their feet touch the ground Naked unbound I want them to know they can trust me
I kick the sheets Until they rise like mountain ranges at my feet
I’m in the dark God only knows the torment writ large upon my heart
What wouldn’t I? What wouldn’t I give?
It comes to this I’m only sure of things I know now don’t exist
There’s no precision I’m inside-outside-in I want subdivision
And all of this fills my aching head I hate this space, the luxury hotel bed. Oh dear, oh me-oh-my Got to concentrate just to keep from trying Oh dear, oh me-oh-my Got to concentrate just to keep from trying Don’t lose it Things move rapidly Don’t lose it Try to maintain composure Don’t lose it The dead are haunting me Out with it Let’s get it over.
What wouldn’t I? What wouldn’t I give?
I’m thoroughly wasted My mind’s hallucinating lucidity
It’s over sensitized And something’s moving on the periphery
#4authorname2005-10-31 04:41Sylvian has masterfully combined two seemingly disparate projects to create a thoroughly engaging collaboration. Best Track "The Day The Earth Stole Heaven" indeed. Only one bum track in my opinion, and that is the monotonous "Serotonin".
But why so many are still dwelling on the last release confounds me. Why the last release keeps being mentioned in many of the reviews confuses me. Why comparisons between the two are even attempted has me pondering any possible line of reasoning for doing so.
#2authorname2005-10-27 18:47Excellent - A return to form. Best Track "The Day the Earth Stole Heaven"
#1authorname2005-10-24 21:34Most accessible DS album in ages, without making compromises, but I still prefer Blemish (and the earlier, EP version of Librarian)
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